very sad... just found out.

rest in peace, Stock Lobster.

HELP!!!

I used Alphatrade from 2007-2009 >L2's< for pinks and otc's.

Great compact detachable screens for L2 and last sale per equity.

Now %^$#&*TDA has killed Command Center and Streamer and their simple L2 and T+S windows.

WHAT IS THE NEXT BEST THING NOW TO THE OLD ALPHATRADE???

cheers
dancy

OMG i just found out.
We shared some emails recently on the alphatrade resurrection..


RIP

what happened?

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( I hope this is connected, Not really sure but will post it anyway.
if anybody has any information on this feel free to post,Thank You )

Update on planned launch of next generation equity trading technology

TORONTO, April 29, 2013 /CNW/ - TMX Group today announced the successful migration of Alpha to TMX Group's proprietary trading engine, TMX Quantum. As part of TMX Group's overall integration plan, Alpha now operates on the same platform as Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange and TMX Select.

"We continue to work to enhance the value of trading on our equity markets with the incorporation of Alpha into our diverse suite of products," says Kevan Cowan, President, TSX Markets and Group Head of Equities, TMX Group. "Shifting Alpha's trading system from external providers to TMX Group technology and data centres provides customers with operational and service efficiencies. This move also represents an important step in the integration of TMX Group following the Maple acquisition."

As a result of the migration of Alpha to TMX Quantum and the overall integration of Alpha with TMX, certain changes have been made to Alpha's Trading Policies and the Alpha Trading Fee Schedule, effective April 29, 2013. These documents may be accessed through http://www.alphatradingsystems.ca/en/TradingAgreements

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TMX Group today also provided an update on the performance testing and planned launch of its next generation equity trading technology, TMX Quantum XA.

TMX Quantum XA is based on hardware acceleration technology and designed to provide TMX Group equity trading customers with dramatically enhanced speed and capacity as well as more efficient order processing. Testing in the production environment achieved a twenty-fold reduction in median latency (measured at the network edge) to sub-100 microseconds on order executions.

"We are very proud of the successes achieved in testing as we move into the final stages of preparation for TMX Quantum XA implementation," said Brenda Hoffman, Chief Information Officer, Group Head of Technology, TMX Group. "Our equity trading clients will benefit significantly from the performance enhancements and broadened functionality"

TMX Select will be the first TMX equity marketplace to migrate to TMX Quantum XA. Symbols on TMX Select will be migrated onto TMX Quantum XA over three phases commencing Monday July 29, 2013. The migration of Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange and Alpha onto TMX Quantum XA is scheduled to begin mid-2014.

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The new alphatrade should contain the following;



keep the same format as before as it was very easy on the eyes.

the most important feature was the bell/ping that went off when news or a filing hit the wires on any stock in your portfolio watch-list and level 2 screens.

get rid off ads and pink promo P&D BS,charge more if you have to but stay away from that racket.

approach brokers and make platform compatible with direct order entry systems..WORTH GOLD.

add after hours and pre market charting...

revamp totalview as the former version wasnt very good imo...

add EOD order imbalance when applicable...didnt always work with the former version.

use silverlight instead of java,less quirks and quarks lol...

dont overcharge,the former stayed in business 10 years because it was priced perfectly imo....

its demise had nothing to do with the quality of the product


get it done soon lol..

feel free to write me @ stocklobsta at yahoo com

It's been a long time since I've been on this forum. Let me say straight out to others reading this board that I have zero desire to get dragged into the petty fights, personal attacks, pointless vitriol and arguments which are at times the less pleasant aspects of message board communication.

If you sincerely wish an answer from me, please keep posts pleasant, adult and civil or don't communicate at all. Such posts will be ignored as they serve no purpose.

That said, I am very interested in all useful feedback and suggestions for creating a better mousetrap.

Like you I love trading. Any useful tool which makes trading easier gets my attention. I miss Alphatrade because it provided a unique service in a space where I spend 99% of my trading time. That service, for my sector, has not been replaced by any group other than TOS and at that poorly. I actively miss what Alphatrade provided me, as I believe do others, and I see ways to make the service better than it was before.

The opportunity to re-create such a useful tool is an exciting challenge. I look forward to thoughtful suggestions and critiques from serious traders and former subscribers.

Let me be clear: this is not the old company, I have nothing to do with their management or their debts. What I create may be similar but it will not be the same. Whatever bitterness people harbor against aspects of the old company is best taken up with the old management if you can track them down and find them.

The best to you serfcorp and as we say, green screens to you always!

Cant find you on SW...
If you build a better mouse-trap,they will come in droves.
Alpha-trade had thousands of subscribers and were doing around 2 mil/year in revenue without the other advertising(P&D) stuff.Read some of the old 10q filings to see the numbers...

No reason you cannot get a quick 1000 subscribers paying an average of 60-75/month and then build on it from the best source of PR,word of mouth...

If you can somehow add direct links to brokers to execute trades as was the plan from alpha,i guarantee you 5-10k subscribers...imho

Their were many Alphatrade victims both users of their services when they lost their low cost services and investors some who lost 10's of thousands of dollars. Although it is people's right to be opinionated about Alphatrade both good and bad. It makes them dependent on other people and that gets them attention.

Most of the time it is all about themselves and not about Alphatrade at all.

By clinging to their self sabotaging victim narratives they can " stay victims" forever until they free themselves from their own chains.

Not Me I Like IHUB and my Brokers trading program.
I like the pinks, Blues and Yellows too and have been trading them for 40 years.

What I don't like is companies who try to take advantage of the demise of other companies down falls, loyal traders and people who are down on there luck. etc,etc.

So how many people would be interested, certainly not these 32 percent

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Maybe just maybe Alphatrade can figure out a way to overcome their massive debt and come back but it will be hard imo.
Thanks again and take care
Oh, nice seeing you again.

agree fully

I never used fly on the wall or other add ons from Alphatrade either...

I would love to speak with you if you have the desire to give me your input

Personally, I haven't touched pinks or pennies in years. My interest right now are options, and you can find me on stocktwits with my optiops alert ID

I dislike pennies for all the reasons you write. That is the reason I stopped posting here on Ihub. I got tired of seeing traders and investors getting slammed time and time again by endless paper...

Death spiral financing went into overdrive after 2008, even in the big boards (just look at the PPS of stocks like DRYS EGLE and PAL). It's all the deadly convertibles killing investors, and I won't be a part of it

However, I don't see a reason to turn down those services if people are willing to pay for them. I just want nothing to do with the promotion and other semi criminal aspect of pinksheets which we all know well

I will post my email to you at some point and I would look forward to your input, if you wish to share your thoughts and opinions.

How many traders here do you think would be interesated in subscribing to the new service? Rough guesstimates are fine.

Thanks!

SL

Along with NYSE,AMEX,NASDAQ as well SL,i personally don't touch pinks or otc anymore as one cannot compete against "FREE PAPER" lol...

Don't waste time with fly on the wall or all the other add ons as few will pay the ridiculous fees for those services..
A good news service is a must as well.


If its going to be done,it has to be done RIGHT or it will fail imho :_)

I was just meeting with a group yesterday about this, and I have the detailed proposal from the original group of programers and chief architect

There would be changes, but for the better imho. The new version would be with updated softwre and compatibility in addition to access on mobile platforms, which I find extremely interesting as many of the traders in my chatrooms have day jobs where they work behind firewalls. Streaming l2 data on tablets or smartphones would be a real asset.

I will post here regularly with important updates as I get them.

My main interest is options level 2s, but I have discussed it with potential financiers and they would be open to continuing Pink/OTCBB l2s as well given the loyal following which Alphatrade had in that space

Keep the board informed on your progress with the possible revival of the alphatrade service SL,many here on the hub are interested

I never cared about the stock nor did i ever own it,play with pinks die with pinks 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the time..
All i care about is the service and i hope it comes back in some form or another...

The service helped many back in it's day.

I highly doubt they will overcome their massive debt.

Lots and lots of investors lost a lot of money here too.

Why keep stroking this.

As long as they bring it back all will be happy.Lots of junk services out there charging premium dollars...alphatrade was aces in my book

I recall a Bloomberg article on TMX Group
on May 10th

TMX Group Profit Matches Estimates as Financings Drop
By Eric Lam - May 10, 2013 6:46 AM MT

TMX Group Ltd., owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, said first-quarter profit matched estimates as trading volume dropped and fewer companies sought financings.

TMX’s net income was C$37.8 million ($37.5 million), or 70 cents a share, the Toronto-based company said today in a statement. Revenue was C$172.2 million. The numbers from a year earlier aren’t strictly comparable because a new company was formed by the sale of the exchange owner to a group of banks and pension funds.

TMX said it had profit of 78 cents a share excluding some items, matching the average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Revenue missed estimates.

TMX fell 1.8 percent to C$52 at 9:35 a.m. in Toronto. The stock has gained 2.5 percent this year.

“Macroeconomic conditions continue to affect TMX Group’s operational and financial performance,” Thomas Kloet, chief executive officer with TMX, said in a conference call today. “The cyclical slowdown in commodities means economies like Canada’s will suffer somewhat. The most pronounced effect of these macroeconomic factors has been on our equities listings and trading business.”

Trading on TMX’s equity markets, including the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture and AlPHA, fell 22 percent to about 38.5 billion shares in the quarter from a year earlier, according to company statistics. Financings on the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture fell 42 percent to C$9.84 billion, the company said.
‘Big Pause’

“When you’re in Canada, you live and die by resources,” Arthur Salzer, chief executive officer with Northland Wealth Management, said on the phone from Toronto on May 7. His firm manages C$225 million. Salzer doesn’t own shares of TMX and is not interested in buying the stock due to weakness in the Canadian equity market.

“We had 10 very nice years of resources doing quite well, climbing higher and trading more. There is now a very big pause in the resource cycle we will have to live through,” Salzer said.

TMX announced a deal with FTSE Group to combine their fixed-income index businesses into a joint venture, the FTSE TMX Global Debt Capital Markets, on Feb. 27. TMX owns a 25 percent stake in the business.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-10/tmx-group-profit-matches-estimates-as-financings-drop.html

EVERYONE

THE FINAL LAST POST

This is my 230th post on this board.

We have all done our best here and put in our best efforts.

I want to take this final post to thank you all.

It has been a pleasure to have met you all.

God Bless You and see you on the other boards.

How about we end it with this final last post.:~)

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Complete POS imho as well.
News feed delayed.
Bid/Ask in L2 rarely similar to watch list B/A.
Connectivity problems galore.
No sound alerts on PR's or filings.



Alpha-trade please for the love of god come back

You making any progress on bringing it back?

I understand.. maybe you will find another one, offeringthe same.? what is about the Company who took over the alphatrade issues? Did you try that L2?

It was automatic,the symbol turned red and a ping went off for any news or filing in real time..With most of the rest you have to set alerts,waste of time if you have a huge watch list,alpha had it built in the system....Worth gold

I am with them for now,harder on the eyes i find,a few more bells and whistles but not the important one lol..

I have to confess that I never used it, not only that, I did not even know about it - lol :)

that feature alone was priceless and haven't been able to find it anywhere yet..

no it doesn´t :)

Does it have the same feature that alpha had when news or a filing hits a bell would go off instantly?

I tried some and I ended up with ihub Level 2, which is better than I thought first. you can put up several Windows with 5 stocks each. if you are used to it after some days ist ok..

Alphatrade please come back

Finally getting back to trading more, but too bad I won't get a chance to use this great product again. Long live.

Not even one week into the tmx powerstream quote service and its down already..


Alphatrade please come back

How do i get my watchlists back?
They said we have until end of march level 2, paid a full month,
this is horrible and unprofessional!

Thanks for the warning, seriously!

I had my complaints about Alphatrade but I guess I was living in a fantasy world (for several years w/APTD's platform--it was just ...there...) and I hadn't had much experience beyond the old Quotetracker and a couple of other proprietary brokerage ones.

If anyone finds a good provider pls post! Thanks!

Yeah Probably what you say. I noticed that the whole weekend I could log in so you musta caught it at just the right time.

You cant separate a window for Portfolio, you cant open new windows for each symbol, confusing, expensive, was on phone with tech support for an hour. CANCELLED THIS JUNK, Help. Need a new provider, that's like Alphatrade please.

Same here dude very hard on the eyes....

I hate THC (potheads there), TMZ (rumor it was a good service), TMX (the real name of the company) whatever the hell it is, Hate it

Ok i see now what happened.I logged in this morning and i guess they pulled the plug at some point later so when i log out that will be that...I will enjoy it for one last day

dude mine is working for some reason lol..

Really? I go directly to TMX when I try to login.

Still working for some reason even though TMX is emailing everyone that the service would be over last Friday at 5......

I signed up for the power stream product for now, but let us know what comes about your Lazarus efforts lol...
I am certain that you may get back at least 90% of the subscribers..